All Chapters of Arrange Marriage to a Heartless CEO: Chapter 111 - Chapter 114

AIDEN’S POVThe moment the call ended, fear punched me in the chest like a hammer.Charlotte’s trembling cuts the hidden message in her words. The terror she was trying to hide, and then the line cuts off.My mind raced in different directions. My hand dropped from the phone. My entire body felt tight, wired, ready to be petrified and breathe. I couldn’t think. I am sure, wherever Charlotte is, she must be petrified. I staggered back a step, then fury exploded.I grabbed the star-shaped glass vase on my desk and smashed it against the shelf.“Damn it!” I roared. “How could Alana do this to me?” I said to no one in particular. Shards scattered across the carpet, glittering like tiny knives. My heart was punching against my ribs so hard it hurt. I raked both hands through my hair, pacing, trying not to scream.“Charlotte… where the hell are you?” I whispered under my breath.My phone buzzed. It was a news notification. I picked up the phone and swiped it open. The notification was abo

CHARLOTTE’S POVOne Month Later.It's been one month since the night everything shattered, and somehow, everything rebuilt itself too.I sat by the window with a cup of tea cradled between my palms, watching the city move on as if nothing had happened. Cars passed. People laughed. Life continued. Yet inside me, there were scars that time would never fully erase.Lila was gone.That truth still felt unreal, as if it were something my mind refused to accept completely. Some days, I woke up expecting to see her timid smile, hear her soft footsteps behind me, and feel her presence hovering, as it always had. Other days, the grief hit so hard it stole the air from my lungs.She had died saving me, even though she aided them in kidnapping me. That fact alone lived inside my chest like a wound that would never close.I hadn’t cried much the day she died. I had been numb, hollowed out by shock and exhaustion, but the tears came later quietly, painfully, relentlessly. I cried in the shower